Maidenly, 1) becoming a maid: “it is not friendly, 'tis not m.” Mids. III, 2, 217. 2) girlish: “what a m. man-at-arms are you become,” H4B II, 2, 82. 3) virginal, chaste: “the --est star,” Lr. I, 2, 143.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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